Using Reactive extensions for feeding test sensor-readings in Windows Phone 29 March 2012 Michael-Van-Wesemael Reactive Extensions, Rx, sensors, testing, Windows Phone An interesting technology you might have heard of is Reactive Extension (MSDN Rx Site). It’s available for different types of applications, although you may need to add the necessary assemblies through NuGet. But in WP7.5 it’s included in the SDK. The only thing you need are references to Micr... [More]
Using the CarouselPanel in Windows 8 Metro 28 March 2012 Diederik-Krols Metro, WinRT Warning: content applies to Windows 8 Consumer Preview only. In the current release, the CarouselPanel can not be used in stand alone mode anymore. This short article describes how to use the CarouselPanel in a Windows 8 Consumer Preview Metro style app. Don't expect the spectacular rotating 3D eff... [More]
A StringFormat converter for Windows 8 Metro 20 March 2012 Diederik-Krols Metro, WinRT Some people seem to think that the world has only one language, one currency, and one way to represent a date, a time, or a number. So WinRT comes without a StringFormat option in data binding. I know for sure that I never built a WPF or Silverlight application without extensively using that StringF... [More]
A Radial Gauge custom control for Windows 8 Metro 09 March 2012 Diederik-Krols Metro, WinRT A long time ago in a galaxy actually not so far away, Colin Eberhardt wrote a Radial Gauge custom control for Silverlight in less than six hours. It had everything a gauge should have: a needle, and a scale with tick markers and labels. Hell, it even had colored quality range indicato... [More]
Databinding to the VariableSizedWrapGrid in Windows 8 Metro 07 March 2012 Diederik-Krols Metro, WinRT This article describes how to implement data binding and using variable sized cells in a VariableSizedWrapGrid control in a Windows 8 Metro application, Customer Preview release. The VariableSizedWrapGrid control exposes the ColumnSpan and RowSpan attached properties. These allow to specify the numb... [More]
Using Grouped GridView Navigation in Windows 8 Metro 02 March 2012 Diederik-Krols Metro, WinRT This article describes how you can navigate through large amounts of data in a Metro application, on the Windows 8 Consumer Preview. We'll use a grouped and a non-grouped GridViews, a SemanticZoom, a WrapGrid, and a VariableSizedWrapGrid control. The app was built with the brand new V... [More]